India vs England T20I Head-to-Head: Record & Results

India lead England 18-16 in men's Twenty20 internationals, from thirty-five matches and one abandonment, and that two-match cushion is the narrowest margin India hold over any side they have met more than ten times. There has never been a tie between them and no match has gone to a super over.

For most of the past decade the gap was wider. India were 18-12 ahead after the World Cup semi-final at the Wankhede on 5 March 2026, having won twelve of the previous eighteen completed meetings. England then won four in a row on their own grounds that July — at Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and Southampton — and the fixture is one bad week from being level.

It has also become a high-scoring fixture in a hurry. Both record team totals in it were made in 2026, four months apart: India's 253 for 7 at the Wankhede was chased down to within seven runs, and England's 257 for 3 at Southampton was set as a target and defended by 56.

The record, by where it was played

	Matches	India won	England won	No result
All T20Is	35	18	16	1
In India	17	11	6	0
In England and Wales	14	4	9	1
Neutral grounds	4	3	1	0

Home advantage in this fixture is unusually blunt. India have won eleven of seventeen at home and lost nine of fourteen away, and neither side has won a series on the other's grounds since India's 2-1 in England in July 2022.

The four neutral matches were all at global tournaments: Kingsmead in 2007, the R Premadasa Stadium in 2012, the Adelaide Oval in 2022 and Providence in Guyana in 2024.

Ten bilateral series, 2011 to 2026

Series	Host	Matches	Result
Aug 2011	England	1	England won 1-0
Oct 2011	India	1	England won 1-0
Dec 2012	India	2	Drawn 1-1
Sep 2014	England	1	England won 1-0
Jan 2017	India	3	India won 2-1
Jul 2018	England	3	India won 2-1
Mar 2021	India	5	India won 3-2
Jul 2022	England	3	India won 2-1
Jan 2025	India	5	India won 4-1
Jul 2026	England	5	England won 4-0

Twenty-nine of the thirty-five meetings have been bilateral, and India have won five of the ten series to England's four with one drawn. England's four-nil in July 2026 is the most one-sided series either side has managed: the first match at Chester-le-Street was washed out with India 189 for 7, and England then won by four wickets, 125 runs, nine wickets and 56 runs.

The 2021 series at Ahmedabad is the other one worth pulling out. All five matches were played on the same ground inside nine days, England won the first and third, and India took the last three — the first time either side had strung three together inside a single series against the other, and a record England then beat with four in a row five years later.

Six meetings at T20 World Cups

Tournament	Stage	Ground	Result
2007	Group	Kingsmead, Durban	India by 18 runs
2009	Super Eight	Lord's	England by 3 runs
2012	Super Eight	R Premadasa, Colombo	India by 90 runs
2022	Semi-final	Adelaide Oval	England by 10 wickets
2024	Semi-final	Providence, Guyana	India by 68 runs
2026	Semi-final	Wankhede, Mumbai	India by 7 runs

India lead 4-2 at world tournaments, and the striking part is the tail of that table: the last three meetings were all semi-finals, in three consecutive tournaments, and the loser of each went home. England's ten-wicket win at Adelaide is the largest defeat India have suffered in a T20 World Cup knockout; the 2022 T20 World Cup page covers what went wrong. India's answers came in Guyana two years later, set out on the 2024 T20 World Cup page, and at the Wankhede in 2026, where they made 253 for 7 and needed all of it — England finished on 246 for 7 with Jacob Bethell making 105 from 48 balls. The 2026 T20 World Cup page has that campaign in full.

The Durban match in September 2007 is the one most people remember for a single over. Yuvraj Singh hit Stuart Broad for six sixes in the nineteenth, finishing with 58 from 16 balls and seven sixes in all. Virender Sehwag made 68 and Gautam Gambhir 58 in the same innings, India reached 218 for 4, and England replied with 200 for 6. The rest of that fortnight is on the 2007 T20 World Cup page.

Where the ceiling sits

	Score	Ground	Date
England's highest	257/3	Southampton	11 Jul 2026
India's highest	253/7	Wankhede, Mumbai	5 Mar 2026
England's lowest	80	Colombo	23 Sep 2012
India's lowest	76	Nottingham	7 Jul 2026

Three of those four records were set in 2026, two of them in the same July series, which is the clearest thing this fixture says about how T20 batting has moved. The Wankhede semi-final produced 499 runs across the two innings, the largest match aggregate the fixture has seen, and it appears on the list of India's highest T20I match aggregates.

India's 247 for 9 at Mumbai on 2 February 2025 is their second-highest against England and produced the biggest margin in the fixture, 150 runs, with England bowled out for 97. Five months later at Trent Bridge, India were 76 all out in 11.4 overs chasing 202, which is their second-lowest total in T20 international cricket and the largest margin by runs England have beaten them by. Both innings sit on the pages for India's highest T20I totals and India's lowest T20I totals.

England's 80 all out at the R Premadasa in 2012 remains the only time either side has been dismissed under 90 in the fixture in a completed twenty-over innings. Harbhajan Singh took 4 for 12 in it.

Leading run scorers

Qualification: 300 runs in the fixture.

Batter	Team	Innings	Runs	Balls	Strike rate	Sixes	Highest
Jos Buttler	England	29	844	561	150.4	39	131
Virat Kohli	India	21	648	480	135.0	19	80
Rohit Sharma	India	15	467	334	139.8	18	100
Hardik Pandya	India	19	441	291	151.5	27	63
Abhishek Sharma	India	11	419	208	201.4	28	135
Harry Brook	England	14	407	235	173.2	20	95
Shreyas Iyer	India	10	367	244	150.4	11	80
Suryakumar Yadav	India	13	360	209	172.2	18	117
Jason Roy	England	15	356	270	131.9	20	67
Eoin Morgan	England	14	347	245	141.6	17	71
Alex Hales	England	10	331	246	134.6	18	86

Jos Buttler has close to two hundred runs on anyone else here, and thirty-nine sixes, which is more than twice Kohli's count from eighty more balls. Across twenty-nine innings against India he has made one hundred, at Southampton in July 2026, and five other scores of fifty or more.

Virat Kohli's 648 came without a hundred: he reached fifty five times and his best is 80 not out at Ahmedabad on 20 March 2021. That is a different pattern from his record against Australia, where the runs are more numerous still and the century equally absent.

Abhishek Sharma's strike rate of 201.4 is the outlier in the table and is not a small-sample artefact — 208 balls faced, 42 fours and 28 sixes. His 135 from 54 balls at the Wankhede in February 2025 is the highest score any India batter has made in a T20 international against anyone.

Six individual hundreds have been made in the fixture: Abhishek's 135, Buttler's 131, Suryakumar Yadav's 117 at Trent Bridge in 2022, Bethell's 105, KL Rahul's 101 at Old Trafford in July 2018 and Rohit Sharma's 100 at Bristol five days after it. Three of the six have come since 2025.

Leading wicket takers

Qualification: nine wickets in the fixture. Wickets are credited to the bowler only where the dismissal is his, so run outs are excluded.

Bowler	Team	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Economy
Chris Jordan	England	24	61.3	571	9.28
Adil Rashid	England	22	80.4	646	8.01
Jofra Archer	England	22	63.0	585	9.29
Hardik Pandya	India	21	61.0	509	8.34
Yuzvendra Chahal	India	16	42.0	338	8.05
Varun Chakravarthy	India	16	29.0	274	9.45
Axar Patel	India	12	44.0	390	8.86
Arshdeep Singh	India	11	39.0	343	8.79
Jasprit Bumrah	India	10	19.2	115	5.95
Sam Curran	England	10	40.0	360	9.00

England's three leading wicket takers all cost more than eight an over, and Adil Rashid's eighty overs are the most either side has bowled in the fixture. Jasprit Bumrah's economy of 5.95 is the lowest by a distance but comes off only nineteen overs, which is why the threshold matters: he has played six of the thirty-five matches.

The best individual returns all belong to India. Yuzvendra Chahal's 6 for 25 at Bengaluru on 1 February 2017 is the finest anyone has bowled in the fixture, and the only other five-wicket hauls are Kuldeep Yadav's 5 for 24 at Old Trafford in July 2018 and Varun Chakravarthy's 5 for 24 at Rajkot in January 2025, the second of those in a match England won. No England bowler has taken five: Jade Dernbach's 4 for 22 at Old Trafford in August 2011 is their best.

The last ten meetings

Date	Ground	Result
25 Jan 2025	Chennai	India by 2 wickets
28 Jan 2025	Rajkot	England by 26 runs
31 Jan 2025	Pune	India by 15 runs
2 Feb 2025	Mumbai	India by 150 runs
5 Mar 2026	Mumbai	India by 7 runs
1 Jul 2026	Chester-le-Street	No result
4 Jul 2026	Manchester	England by 4 wickets
7 Jul 2026	Nottingham	England by 125 runs
9 Jul 2026	Bristol	England by 9 wickets
11 Jul 2026	Southampton	England by 56 runs

Four wins each from the nine that produced a result, and the two halves of the table could hardly look less alike. Between January 2025 and March 2026 India won four of five; in eleven days that July, England won four of four.

What the ledger actually shows

Setting a total has been the better half of the toss. Eighteen of the thirty-four completed matches were won by the side batting first, and only twice has a target of 190 or more been chased down — England's 199 at Bristol in July 2018 and India's 191 at Old Trafford in July 2026. The two highest totals the fixture has produced were both defended.

England win in England more reliably than India win in India. India's home return of eleven from seventeen is good but not dominant; England's nine from thirteen completed matches on their own grounds is the better home record in the fixture, and their four-nil in 2026 was built on it.

The scoring rate has changed the fixture faster than the balance of power. Across the first twenty meetings, to July 2022, five totals of 200 or more were made. In the fifteen since, there have been seven, four of them above 245. The bowling economies in the table above are inflated by that: Chris Jordan's 9.28 across sixty-one overs would have looked far worse in 2011 than it does now, and Rashid's 8.01 across eighty is arguably the best sustained control anyone on either side has shown.

Five of India's eighteen wins have come by fifteen runs or fewer, or with two wickets or fewer in hand. This is not a fixture that produces ties, but it produces very close finishes: Nagpur in January 2017 by five runs, Ahmedabad in March 2021 by eight, Chennai in January 2025 with two wickets left, Pune four days later by fifteen, and the 2026 semi-final by seven. For the longer forms of the same rivalry, see the India versus England Test record and the India versus England ODI record, with the wider context in the India-England rivalry guide and the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Results, margins and team totals are taken from the ball-by-ball record of every men's Twenty20 international between India and England, from Durban on 19 September 2007 to Southampton on 11 July 2026. Batting and bowling aggregates are computed from those same deliveries rather than copied from a summary table, which is why the wicket columns exclude run outs — a run out belongs to the fielders on a scorecard, not to the bowler.

Thresholds are stated on both player tables: 300 runs for batting and nine wickets for bowling. The reason is visible in the bowling table itself, where a bowler with nineteen overs sits alongside one with eighty; strike rates and economy rates computed on two or three matches describe the matches, not the player, and a page that ranked them together without saying so would be misleading.

The match at Chester-le-Street on 1 July 2026 was abandoned after India had batted, and is counted in the thirty-five and in the no-result column while contributing nothing to the team-total records or the player aggregates. Venue splits treat matches in India, matches in England and Wales, and matches at third-country grounds as three separate groups; the Cardiff match of July 2018 sits in the second of those.

Figures are current to 26 August 2026 and describe what the results have been rather than what the next series will do. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org), ODC-BY 1.0.